Office Schackau

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The office of Schackau was an administrative and judicial district of the Franconian noble family Eberstein and Rosenbach under the sovereignty of the Hochstift Fulda .

history

The area of ​​the later office was uninhabited forest in the early Middle Ages and part of the imperial forest which was given under the name Wildbann in 1059 by Heinrich IV. To the Fulda monastery. In 1347, the Lords of Eberstein, who were originally the Fulda Ministeriale , were first documented as landowners in Schackau and the village of Eckweisbach as the Fulda fiefdom . The von Eberbach family tried to round off the property into a spatially closed unit. 1396 received power from Eberstein as Hanerbe a. a. Schackau, Eckweisbach, Langenberg, Klein-Sassen and Dietges as the Fulda fiefdom. Dietges is also known as the Henneberg fiefdom.

Eberstein and from 1589 Rosenbach had high and low hunting and bailiwick jurisdiction in office . The Hochstift Fulda had central jurisdiction . The rule so divided led to a multitude of lawsuits and contracts. While Eberstein wanted to free itself from the Fulda jurisdiction, Fulda wanted to expand its sovereign rights and to maintain complete sovereignty. Philipp von Eberstein led the first legal dispute in 1525. In 1550, 1577 and 1659 contracts were concluded between the parties.

The Brückenau Treaty of 1659 was essentially confirmed in the following treaties from 1708 to 1802. After that, the subjects were subjected to the Rosenbachschen Vogteigericht. However, they had to bear a sixth of the costs of the court court Hofbieber and were obliged to follow the court with a rifle and to make an excuse. In 1565, the Fulda Abbey recognized the imperial immediacy of the Rosenbach family (see Buchonia # Buchisches Quartier ). The Schackau office had thus achieved a very high degree of independence from the Fulda monastery.

These agreements were reconfirmed on July 22, 1802 and ratified by Wilhelm V (Orange) on April 23, 1803 after the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . With the formation of the Rheinbund the mediatization of the office took place. It rose in the Grand Duchy of Würzburg , where the Rosenbach family continued to exercise patrimonial jurisdiction . From 1814 the office was then an exclave of the Kingdom of Bavaria in the Electorate of Hesse . From 1862 it was subordinate to the Gersfeld district office that was ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia after the German War in 1866 .

Scope of office

The office was an enclave in the Oberamt Bieberstein and in 1671 included Bubenbad , Danzwiesen , Dietges , Dörmbach , Eckweisbach , Eselsbrunn , Guckai , Harbach , (Klein-) Sassen , Langenberg , Mittelrupsroth , Öchenbach , Schackau , Steens , Stellberg , Stöckel and Unterrupsroth . In 1763 Guckai, Steens and Stöckel were no longer mentioned, but Grabenhof and Oberrupsroth .

literature

  • Anneliese Hofemann: Studies on the development of the territory of the imperial abbey of Fulda and its offices. 1958, pp. 179-181.